Head, meet wall
Trying very, very hard to be helpful and offer reassurance and positive advice on the forum - it's called No More Panic, after all.
I'm getting so sick of having my advice ignored or dismissed, though. I know not everything works for everyone, but I've been in a position where my anxiety lost me my friends, my dignity, my self-respect and more employment opportunities than I care to think about. I'm not all the way in the clear yet, but I'm better than I was and I'm enjoying life.
I don't do this for gratitude or pats on the backside, I do it because anxiety is crap and makes people incredibly unhappy, and in an ideal world, I'd like to help with that.
Just a basic acknowledgement of what I'm saying and where I'm coming from occasionally would be nice, though.
Probably time to back away for a while, but frankly, that's not likely.
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